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The NASA Balloon Facility award to Peraton is a $163M federal operations contract covering launch infrastructure, flight operations, and payload-recovery support across multiple field sites in Texas. The scope centers on high-altitude balloon launches, which require secure staging areas for payloads (some carrying sensitive scientific instruments), controlled-access hangars, and remote recovery zones spread across hundreds of miles of open range. Mobile surveillance towers fit the dispersed-site model better than fixed perimeter, and vehicle monitoring serves the recovery-convoy logistics during multi-day retrieval operations. The award appears in USAspending records without a posted date, suggesting it is either a renewal of an existing NASA contract or a recent award not yet reflected in public solicitation archives. Peraton's role as prime contractor means security procurement likely flows through their facilities and operations subcontracts rather than direct NASA channels. The operational footprint is live now, not mobilizing, which shifts the window from pre-budget to replacement-cycle or scope-expansion. Houston branch sits 158 miles from the nominal facility centroid, well inside the 300-mile coverage radius. No warm Zedcor customer operates nearby. The recommended first move is identifying Peraton's facility-security or site-operations manager for the Texas balloon program (not the federal contracting officer) and proposing a walk-through of current payload-staging security and recovery-zone monitoring, framed as mobile-tower supplementation rather than wholesale replacement of existing systems.